We all know that Ukraine is famous for many food dishes, and one of the bigger ones being perogies or in Ukrainian pyroghy. I come from a family that I would say is fairly Ukrainian. I mean being in Canada now they don’t follow all of the customs, but we do follow a few traditions. Now to get on with my story. My grandma makes tons of perogies and cabbage rolls for our family Christmas supper so this past weekend me and my mom went out to my grandparents farm to help make the perogies. When I first walked into my grandma’s house and saw the big bowl of potatoes and the massive ball of dough I thought we were going to be there forever. We did though finish in about 6 hours, which was still pretty long. This was the first year I actually helped out with the perogies and I have to say it turned out to be a ton of fun. I wasn’t very good at it at the start, but I eventually was doing pretty well. I don’t know for sure if learning how to make perogies was a good idea because that means I’m going to have to help out every year lol, but I guess one day a year making perogies won’t be that bad and it is one of the joys of being from a Ukrainian family.
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Wow there’s so many! What kind are they? I love perogies! How many did you end up making? Do you like to eat kovbasa too? My old roommate was Ukrainian and brought sausage from home all the time!
I think most families have a food they make like that. I love getting togethor with all the women in my family and talking as we work on a project such as chocolates (my mom used to make hundreds every year). The work is hard but the company makes it go fast and for many it seems to be a right of passage from childhood to the equal of the generation before them.
I love making perogies!
I finally learnt this summer, while I was a program director at a children’s summer camp, and we had each of the kids make perogies for supper one night. It isn’t actually that hard, surprisingly. And turned out to be fun for me as well!